Byline: Pat Rooney, Special to the Rocky We asked midfielder Ciaran O'Brien, the Rapids' first-round selection (fifth overall) in Major League Soccer's SuperDraft, to . . . Fill in the blanks You went to UC Santa Barbara and grew up...

Globe staff reporters William F. Doherty and Daniel Vasquez contributed to this story. CAMBRIDGE -- Edward S. O'Brien, a Somerville teenager who prosecutors say walked out of his house on a hot summer night two years ago and used a pocket knife to kill...

Newmont Mining Corp., one of the world's largest gold producers, said Thursday it eliminated all of its forward-sales gold contracts and is working to discontinue its merchant banking division.The company said it will record a $531 million pre-tax loss as a result of the eliminated...

Newmont Mining Corp., one of the world's largest gold producers, said Thursday it eliminated all of its forward-sales gold contracts and is working to discontinue its merchant banking division.The company said it will record a $531 million pre-tax loss as a result of the eliminated...

Although the word "cult" reportedly never came up in the preparation or early marketing of Rocky Horror, the phenomenal following the movie has achieved can hardly be understood in any other terms. Partly, cult overtones developed because at least to some degree the film does speak to people who see themselves as outsiders to begin with…. (p. 36) Of course, we're all Brads and Janets when we see Rocky Horror for the first time. But not when we walk out after the movie; perhaps th...

Rocky Horror is infantile paralysis grown up: transvestitism, Oldenburg weird sets, satire on Warhol's Frankenstein, some soft rock clamoring. Sort of film that's accessory to the secret medicine chest. Seen best with a happy-honk swab up your nose…. The Rocky Horror Cult is instructive. More than instructive: a synecdoche for aesthetic trends that have been in the brooder house since God knew when….

[The most participatory movie of all is Rocky Horror Picture Show.] As anyone between twelve and twenty-five must know by now, the film is a transvestite tease that blithely parodies old monster movies, and its rock score flirts with the styles of the late fifties and midsixties…. The movie includes many tributes to cinematic history; one beguiling sight-gag is a shot of [Frank N. Furter] from below as he floats face down in a swimming pool—in homage to William Holden's corpse in Sunset...